Bad science / Ben Goldacre.
By: Goldacre, Ben
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TextPublisher: London : Harper Perennial, 2009Description: xiii, 370 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780007284870 (pbk.) :; 000728487X (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Science -- Popular works | Errors, Scientific -- Popular worksDDC classification: 500 | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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| Standard Loan | Mater Hospital **Contact Library Desk to borrow this item** | Wellbeing Collection | W500 (Browse shelf) | Available | Wellbeing Collection | LR04842 | |
| Standard Loan | SMH Library | Wellbeing Collection | W500 (Browse shelf) | Available | Wellbeing collection | 39104000000092 | |
| Standard Loan | SVUH Library | Wellbeing Collection | W500 (Browse shelf) | Available | Wellbeing Collection | T13749 |
Originally published: London: Fourth Estate, 2008.
Formerly CIP. Uk
Includes bibliographical references.
Ben Goldacre’s wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations.
Since 2003 Dr Ben Goldacre has been exposing dodgy medical data in his popular Guardian column. In this eye-opening book he takes on the MMR hoax and misleading cosmetics ads, acupuncture and homeopathy, vitamins and mankind’s vexed relationship with all manner of ‘toxins’. Along the way, the self-confessed ‘Johnny Ball cum Witchfinder General’ performs a successful detox on a Barbie doll, sees his dead cat become a certified nutritionist and probes the supposed medical qualifications of ‘Dr’ Gillian McKeith.
Full spleen and satire, Ben Goldacre takes us on a hilarious, invigorating and ultimately alarming journey through the bad science we are fed daily by hacks and quacks.
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